December 2008 Archives

I graded Project #3 on the plane ride to Auckland, and I have to say I was impressed with the quality of the answers. Most of you did a good job not only of getting numbers out of Arlequin, but also of making some biological sense of them. A few of you even tried some relevant analyses I'd only mentioned in passing or hadn't discussed at all and/or offered detailed analyses of the patterns that showed a lot of insight.

I've posted final grades for the course to PeopleSoft. I'm not sure how long they'll take to appear, but let me know if you see any problems when they do show up..

Thanks for a great semester. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did, and I hope that you learned some things you'll find useful in the future.

I've had several questions about question #3 on project #3. All of them are something like "How do I answer that?" In the interest of sharing the same advice with everyone. Here's roughly how I've responded each time I was asked:

Read the papers. Think about the results of your analyses and what they tell you about the underlying evolutionary processes that produced the patterns you see. Ask yourself "Are the results of my analyses consistent with what the authors claim?" Once you can answer that question and can explain your answer, you've got the answer to question 3.

Hi all,

I will be in my office on Wednesday from 1-6 and Thursday morning 8:30-12.  If you need help and these times do not work for you, please email me.

Cheers, Kathryn

As you may recall, I'll be grading Project #3 -- not Kathryn. As you'll also recall, I'm leaving town on Saturday, so if you don't get Project #3 handed in on time, I'll have no choice but to give you an incomplete. I also plan to leave campus almost immediately after lecture on Friday, and I may or may not be able to read projects that are e-mailed to me.

Bottom line? If you want to receive a letter grade rather than an incomplete:

1. Hand in a printed copy of Project #3 on Friday.
2. Hand it in during lecture on Friday.

If you send me an e-mail copy or leave a hard copy after lecture, I will grade it. But the chance that I'll get it graded in time to assign you a letter grade for the course is not distinguishable from zero.